Thursday, December 29, 2016

A: Something under the ice? Sure.

Another "Yes, we lied, and we did this to damage the US and empower Iran" from Dear Leader:Last week, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) posted
documents revealing that President Obama granted Iran permission to stockpile uranium in excess of the 300 kilogram limit set by the nuclear deal. Jenna Lifhits of the Weekly Standard has the story.The exemptions had been kept secret for almost a year. However the
Trump administration reportedly intended to make them public, which may
be why the IAEA decided to reveal them.The Obama administration didn’t just keep the exemptions secret. Apparently, it denied their existence. According to Lifhits:

Some details of the exemptions had previously been leaked. The Institute
for Science and International Security revealed in September that Iran
had been allowed to exceed certain caps in the deal so that the country
could come into compliance with the deal’s terms.Administration officials dismissed the. . .report at the time.

In other words, the administration was dishonest. What else is new?

Well, if you're this concerned about people finding out what your reading list is, maybe you're doing something you don't want people to know about. And when you're a teacher/professor, people damn well have a right to know what you're teaching. Deal with it.

Speaking of academics, remember when the left valued other views, and tolerance thereof?

C Christine Fair, an associate professor at the Center for Peace and Security Studies, was incensed after Asra Q Nomani, 'lifelong liberal', wrote an article about voting for Donald Trump as a Muslim immigrant.

That led to a month of abuse on social media - including insults and threats of lawsuits - The Daily Caller reported.
The same kind of idiot who screams "RACISM!" if someone on the right looks sideways at a muslim. But those are 'good' muslims, I guess; 'bad' ones are open targets.

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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences. - C.S. Lewis

Y'all got on this boat for different reasons, but y'all come to the same place. So now I'm asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything, I know this - they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They'll swing back to the belief that they can make people... better. And I do not hold to that. So no more runnin'. I aim to misbehave. - Capt. Mal

A Rifleman’s Prayer:Oh Lord, I would live my life in freedom, peace and happiness, enjoying the simple pleasures of hearth and home. I would die an old, old man in my own bed, preferably of sexual overexertion.

But if that is not to be, Lord, if monsters such as this should find their way to my little corner of the world on my watch, then help me to sweep those bastards from the ramparts, because doing that is good, and right, and just.

And if in this I should fall, let me be found atop a pile of brass, behind the wall I made of their corpses. Geek with a .45

"He's Black Council,", I said.

"Or maybe stupid," Ebenezar countered.

I thought about it. "Not sure which is scarier."

Ebenezar blinked at me, then snorted. "Stupid, Hoss. Every time. Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day." Ebenezar McCoy

“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition” ― Rudyard Kipling

This deprecation of individual freedom was objectionable to me. I am convinced now, as I was then, that man is an end because he is a child of God. Man is not made for the state; the state is made for man. To deprive man of freedom is to relegate him to the status of a thing, rather than elevate him to the status of a person. Man must never be treated as means to the end of the state; but always as an end within himself." Dr. M.L. King Jr.